within the Northern Ireland state." See also List of United Kingdom MPs with the shortest service Terence MacSwiney – Lord Mayor of Cork in 1920 who died in Brixton Prison after a hunger strike lasting 74 days. References Works cited External links Bobby Sands Trust official website, contains poetry and writings by Sands Bobby Sands diary entries & biographies of the ten hunger strikers Timewatch: Hunger Strike – a Hidden History (Otmoor Productions/BBC 1993), imdb.com Secret diary written during the first seventeen days of his hunger strike, before being moved to the prison hospital. 1954 births 1981 deaths Anti H-Block MPs Deaths by starvation Irish nationalists Irish republicans Irish revolutionaries Irish socialists Irish songwriters Irish writers Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Fermanagh and South Tyrone (since 1950) Northern Ireland politicians convicted of crimes People from Newtownabbey People who died on the 1981 Irish hunger strike Prisoners accorded Special Category Status Provisional Irish Republican Army members UK MPs 1979–1983